Beets v. County of Los Angeles

Opinion

FLIER, J.

Heck v. Humphrey (1994) 512 U.S. 477, 486-487 [129 L.Ed.2d 383, 114 S.Ct. 2364] (Heck) holds that when a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in a suit under title 42 of the United States Code section 1983 (section 1983) would necessarily imply the invalidity of the plaintiff’s underlying conviction or sentence, the complaint must be dismissed, unless the plaintiff can demonstrate that his conviction or sentence has been invalidated. In Yount v. City of Sacramento (2008) 43 Cal.4th 885, 902 [76 Cal.Rptr.3d 787, 183 P.3d 471] (Yount), our Supreme Court held that the same…